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The example par excellence of the architectural style known as brutalism. This familiar slab in west London resembles a pre-stressed, compressed Nessie. Trellick is Goldfinger’s tallest London building, at 31 storeys (120 m including mast). The block contains 217 flats of mostly social housing, but with significant numbers of private residents. Some of these surprisingly spacious apartments will set you back over a third of a million pounds.

Londonista Greg offers the following insight.

The elevator in the service-tower only stops every three floors, because of the way the flats are laid out. So in the service tower, in the spaces where the landings would be where the lift doesn't stop, Goldfinger designed ‘hobby rooms’ — in his naive utopian imagination, this is where the men of Trellick would do woodworking, and the women would do cross-stitch together, as a community. Obviously, this was doomed to fail from the start, and in the ‘dark days’ of Trellick, when it was all crack dealers and rapists, the hobby rooms, which had no toilets or kitchens, became flats for squatters. Classy! Today the rooms are locked.

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